US Plant Patent PP6146
Smooth Angel
Rose plant named Smooth Angel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2006. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6146
- Filed
- January 28, 1986
- Granted
- April 12, 1988
- Expires
- January 28, 2006
- Assignee
- GURNEY SEED AND NURSERY CORP
- Inventor
- DAVIDSON HARVEY D
Abstract
A new rose variety of the hybrid tea class distinctive in its character by being near thornless and by having blooms which open with the outer petals being a cream color and the center petals yellow-orange as hereafter shown and described.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, substantially as shown and described, characterized by the lack of thorns or prickles on all portions of the plant excepting the main cane area above the bud union and having blooms of strong fragrance that are distinctive in their two-tone coloration of cream outer petals and yellow-orange center petals on an attractive spreading bush of disease resistance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6146 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.